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Another noteworthy feature GitHub

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Copilot offers to you is its code actions

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feature.

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For example, if I select this code here, I

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get these sparkles here.

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And that's the code actions icon that

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should pop up when you select code.

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If you click it, you get some smart

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suggestions, which may differ

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depending on what you selected, that

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are suggested by the GitHub Copilot

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extensions.

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For example, here, I get the suggestion

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to rewrite this selected code by

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modifying it with using Copilot.

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If I click that, it simply opens the inline

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chat with that code selected, and I can

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ask questions as you learned it before.

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Or alternatively, I could review it.

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And if I click that, it behind the scenes

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uses GitHub Copilot chat to ask for

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suggestions regarding how this selected

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code could be optimized.

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And it displays the comments it has here

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in this overlay window.

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In my case here, it does not suggest any

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changes, but that might differ

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depending on which code you selected.

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So it's a nice way of getting a second

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opinion on your code to find out

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whether there's something you might

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wanna change or improve.

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And that's this code actions feature here.

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If you, for example, have an error, if I

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remove a key here, you also get such

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code actions if you click this light bulb.

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Here, you get some other suggestions as

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well, which come directly from Visual

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Studio Code, but you also get the

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suggestion to fix this with Copilot.

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So if you can't figure out why you have

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an error here, you can click this, and it

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automatically asks GitHub Copilot for

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the fix.

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So here, for example, it tells me that I

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need to fix the import statement and it

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then suggests the fix down there, and I

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can now accept it to automatically apply

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it.

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So that's the code actions feature, which

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is also a feature you should be aware of.